Jay yeah, I hope so too. It's more likely that the smile make a second album because it is a legitimate band I believe, while AFP was more like a live band that Thom assembled to play his songs, using the best musicians he could get.

    5 months later
    2 months later

    Lumeinshin As promised, my family bought my dad a vinyl player for his birthday and I have just ordered him some vinyls he'll like (hopefully). Stuff like Biffy Clyro, Keane and such.
    It helps that I don't dislike them either 😆 Biffy Clyro are definitely one of those bands where I think everyone knows a few songs, but not many people know who they are


    I also got myself some cassettes by the same artists!

      15 days later

      Redrick
      Oasis, Kansas, Aldo Nova and Kino!
      Man, that's a lot for one photo!

      As for me, I only really buy physical when I can't find digital, so I can make it digital and upload wherever I can.
      And, frankly, I hate vinyls. They should've died in favor of tapes much earlier.

        14 days later

        This may not be the right thread to ask, but here I go.

        Do you know of any particular resources to find lyrics for obscure/niche music? There's this one Japanese song (sung in Engrish) I've listened to for many years, but I found that there's actually nowhere with the lyrics anymore. I can't even find the song on Youtube, had to go to bilibili for it. And Google's algorithm seems to have gotten drastically worse over the years, so I'm having trouble on that front too.

        The song in question, if anyone's curious: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12W411W72K/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0

          agoraoptera
          The best way would be to download Tandem app on Android, choose the language you want and find somebody willing to write down the lyrics for you.

              Ross_R
              I could technically do that myself, but the reason I would like to find the official lyrics is because the lyrics aren't in proper grammatical English (or even pronounced correctly sometimes) but I'd like to know what the singer intended in their own words. I have a vague approximation of it, but it'd be nice to have confirmation.
              And more broadly, I'm curious to know where I can find such resources for other niche/obscure music. There's bound to be something out there like that.

                  agoraoptera
                  Well, none that I know of. Be sure to reply to this post if you'll ever find something, but in my experience obscure and niche music doesn't have much resources to go to, hence why it is obscure.

                    15 days later

                    I don't have any vinyls, although I always wanted some. In my dream house I have a player playing some album on loop on a nice sunny day.

                    vinyls are QUITE expensive on where i live, so what i'm doing is having a digital collection of sorts.
                    What i do want to do in the future, when i get a way of earning money of my own, is buy CD's and burn them with different albums n stuff; Make custom covers for them and stuff like that. Maybe even adding some songs of my own with songs that have the same vibe??
                    I'd be pretty cool.

                      barriszta
                      CDs are... an option, but I'm not sure, really. From one point of view, CDs are the best in terms of quality: they are pretty much the same digital file you have on your PC. On the other hand though, why bother with the CD if you want digital music? Just make several backups on HDDs - or, if you want portability, grab several USB flashes. Why? Look into the stuff like "disc rot". Out of all digital variants, CD is probably the most easily damageable one.
                      Now one alternative I'd rather go for instead of CDs - and I've thought about writing those myself - is tapes. Buy yourself something that can record tapes. A good ghettoblaster with a line-in is quite an option - just be sure the writing/recording heads are inside the thing. And it will be something more interesting than just a direct digital copy on a dubiously reliable storage medium.

                          2 months later

                          Lumeinshin
                          My girlfriend has (I think) got me a vinyl by Low Roar for Christmas, so I will have to sort myself out a player 😅

                          Ive bought a few more cassettes this year, not as many as before but a few
                          There has been an influx of Chinese knockoffs on eBay and aliexpress of albums, and albums that were never on cassette have been put on and sold there. I have bought a few so I'll see if they at least did a good job

                          Ross_R I dont have a proper deck, i did buy one that was supposedly refurbed a couple of years back, but it immediately ate a tape and broke. I do have a pretty fancy Walkman tho. A WM-GX622, its pretty good but I also like to use a less complex playback only Walkman for listening, although it doesn't sound as good as the nice one. The gx622 records okay, but is a little flat. I was not sure whether it was recording in mono or not but it does sound good enough for now. It uses one of those vape batteries which I need to get a few more of.

                                Lumeinshin
                                Looks interesting. What's the input? 3.5 jack? Can't quite determine from photos.
                                And I'm really not that big on topic of tape recording, so I frankly can't quite tell you how much the difference is between different mechanisms and what you gotta have in your machine to make a top-notch recorded sound, so I guess it's good as long as it works for you.
                                The only thing I can talk about is the input, and pretty much that's why I'm asking. Line-in input is a guaranteed stereo sound with pretty much the best quality possible on the start of the process. From there on it is all about the tape and the heads and whatever else might be there, involved in the process.
                                3.5 jack definitely might be a mono sound. The easiest way to check it is to play back some of the recorded cassette back into the PC and record it.

                                  2 months later

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